| Follow up to this tragic story from yesterday. |
A Learjet that departed Austin, Texas, en route to the Bahamas plunged at a high rate of speed and nosedived into a mobile home part nine miles from Mar-a-Lago on Sunday.
The doomed plane erupted into a giant fireball and left a massive crater in the road.
All nine people aboard the doomed aircraft perished.
The cause of the crash is unknown; however, severe thunderstorms impacted South Florida in the Palm Beach region on Sunday.
The pilot was identified as Jeff Gregory, 55 and the co-pilot was identified as Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20.
Nathalia reportedly text her boyfriend, also a licensed pilot, 10 minutes before the crash: "I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice."
According to TMZ, Texas tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife, Helen Sharp and their two young children, Emma and Charlie were on the Learjet.
The Robinson family nanny, Anita Maria Cetina, and their two friends, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr also died in the crash.